Abstract: A self-expanding display unit (1) comprising at least one display sheet (3, 5) of a substantially rigid and foldable material having a display face (7,9), a biasing means for bending the display face of the display sheet into a substantially convex shape, and bracing means (2) acting against the biasing means to limit the amount by which the display sheet (3, 5) bends. The display sheet comprises a plurality of panels, delimited from adjacent panels by crease lines. The bracing means (2) comprises a single, substantially rigid and foldable bracing sheet (2) having a plurality of bracing panels (50), each of which is delimited from an adjacent bracing panel by a fold line (52). The fold lines (52) and the crease lines are coincident with each other. Such a device is stable in operation and is efficient to use and manufacture.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for determining whether an opportunistic bacterium is infectious.

Abstract: A self-expanding display unit (1) comprising at least one display sheet (3, 5) of a substantially rigid and foldable material having a display face (7,9), a biasing means for bending the display face of the display sheet into a substantially convex shape, and bracing means (2) acting against the biasing means to limit the amount by which the display sheet (3, 5) bends. The display sheet comprises a plurality of panels, delimited from adjacent panels by crease lines. The bracing means (2) comprises a single, substantially rigid and foldable bracing sheet (2) having a plurality of bracing panels (50), each of which is delimited from an adjacent bracing panel by a fold line (52). The fold lines (52) and the crease lines are coincident with each other. Such a device is stable in operation and is efficient to use and manufacture.

Abstract: In a system and method for identifying aberrations in treatment pattern for a medical condition, a group of healthcare claim data to be analyzed is identified, wherein the group of healthcare claim data to be analyzed includes claim data representing treatment of the medical condition. Actual treatment pattern data is generated that represents the claim data in the group of healthcare claim data to be analyzed. Defined treatment pattern data for the medical condition is retrieved and compared to the actual treatment pattern data to identify one or more discrepancies therebetween, and corresponding comparison data representing the results of the comparison is generated. The actual treatment pattern data may represent a patient's treatment for the medical condition, and the defined treatment pattern data may represent treatment of a group of other patients for the medical condition.

Abstract: A method of identifying one or more proteins in an unannotated DNA sequence is disclosed. The method involves dividing the DNA sequence into a plurality of sequence fragments of substantially the same length (about 300 to 5000 base pairs, most typically 1000 to 1050 base pairs. A six frame translation is then performed on each of the DNA sequence fragments to obtain six translated amino acid sequence fragments for each DNA sequence fragment. Each of the translated sequence fragments is subjected to theoretical digestion to obtain a plurality of cleaved peptide sequences. Next experimental empirical data for peptide fragments from a protein digested in the same manner as the theoretical digestion is compared with the theoretical data generated in step for each of the translated sequence fragments to identify one or more translated sequence fragments which include a substantial number of peptides present in the digested protein.